Neda Kovinić pursued her PhD in performance and documentary installations, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She has the Master of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Master of Interior design at the Faculty of the Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.
Since 1996, she has been exhibiting at solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. She has made ambient installations, thus forming art basis close to conceptual art. In her recent projects, she has been trying to face the facts of the multitude of temporality and the space of global capitalism. She explored types of escapism in artificial autonomies, the space of escape and retreat, especially in former Yugoslavia after the wars and the rise of nationalism.
Her latest works are based on creating networks between artists of conceptual dance and various nationalities, dance backgrounds and age, in order to create the practice of togetherness, care, and the exploration of social, political and art-political issues. With her practice she questions how body politics, social relations, power structures and ecology are inscribed into bodies and how this in turn shapes our movements in space. She is particularly interested in how practices of sharing, togetherness,
empathy, and even humour can take shape within installations—either as an
extension of, or as a counterpoint to, the material world of galleries, museums, and
public space.
Her installations often center on textiles—linen pieces, recycled or newly painted, sometimes printed with words or sentences—that serve both as costumes and exhibition objects. She combines them with natural and playful materials such as soil, branches, shells, stones, or clay. Sound and video add further layers: recordings of conversations, songs, waves, or protests, alongside video documents of site explorations and urban choreographies.
She usually begins her collaborations with dance-based exercises and talks that foster connection, creating an affective weave between performers, audiences, memories, and spaces. In performance, these elements fold into one another, forming a larger, self-weaving content that draws participants in while leaving space for their own interpretations.
What remains afterward are objects, textiles, and recordings—sometimes as installations, sometimes as videos, sometimes re-entering the cycle of future works. For her, nothing is ever fixed; no installation, video, or performance is ever the same.
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Born in Belgrade, based in Berlin​
nedakovinic@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
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2025 Moody Drifts: Affective Resistance, dance performance, The
2024 "Porous Boundaries" performance and installation, 2024, Open Studios, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2024 "Glitch: Bodies Unseen" video installation, Showcase GlogauAIR Berlin, Germany
2023 "Soft power" performance, video and space installation, Kunstraum 34, Festival “Trips”, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 "Silly girlfriends" performance and installation, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 "Together apart", performance, CCB, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 "What would you give for the last Firefly?", video installation, CCB, Belgrade
2019 "Deliberately inefficient", PhD documentary installation and performance, Ostavinska gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2019 "The Academy of Fireflies", performance, DKSG, New Belgrade, Serbia
2018 "Behind enthusiasm" Kontakt gallery, installation and performance, Kragujevac, Serbia
2018 "Behind enthusiasm" Theater hall SKC, installation and performance, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 “Black but beautiful” Remont gallery, drawings installation, 2017 Belgrade, Serbia
2011 “Passage” Rima gallery, collages and drawings, Kragujevac, Serbia
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Group Exhibitions / Performances
2024 "Moody Drifts: Affective Resistance" dance performance, The National Dance Centre in Bucharest, Romania
2024 "Un(re)learning Rivers" performance and installation, European Pavilion: Liquid Becomings, Quinta Alegre, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 "Ïncoming" performative intervention by Fuzinato Jelena with Adriana Gvozdenovic and Neda Kovinic, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2024 "Soft Power - Dionysian Socialism", reading performance, Unbreak My Radio, Vorspiel/transmediale/ctm, Berlin, Germany
2024 "Animals that are missing" Film, 37. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 ”Animals that are missing” film screening, Winter Fest, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
2023 “Sharing works / Inter - Actions / Julie Peckard / Neda Kovinic” performance and video screening, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2023 “Traveling Bodies” performance, Tarnby Performance Festival, Copenhagen
2023 “Animals that are missing” workshop, installation and listening session, Vital Currencies, Max Planck Institute and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 “Non-aligned”, performance and video installation, Römerstraße project space, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 “Academy of Fireflies” video screening at Shared Spaces, conference at LAF project space Pforzheim
2022 “Silly girlfriends” performance, video and object installation, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, November, Serbia
2022 Rethinking "The Sadness" by ŠKART, installation with workshops, Institut of The Present, TimiÈ™oara
2022 “Silly girlfriends” performance and sound installation, 31. Memorial Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia
2022 “Secondary Archives” sound installation, Manifesta 14, Prishtina Kosovo
2021 “Together apart” video installation, the Autumn exhibition, ULUS, Belgrade
2021/2022 "Together apart", video, AFI Whitechapel gallery London/UK ; Hammer Museum UCLA; Crawford Gallery, Corc; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein e.V. Germany;
2020 "Together apart", sound installation, The decade's collection, City Gallery of contemporary Museum of art Smederevo
2020 "Deliberately inefficient", "Atlas particles", ULUS, Kalemegdan
2020 "Klampenborg dancescape", "Where the future begins?", Spring group exhibition, ULUS, Kalemgdan, Beograd
2007 "Community" ULUS gallery, video work and photos, Belgrade
2001 "Second day on the journey through fear” Zacheta Museum, installation, Warsaw, Poland
1998 “Second day on the journey through fear" installation, 39. October Salon MIJ Belgrade, Serbia
1998 "Second day on the journey through fear" installation, International Biennial of Young Artists1998. Vršac, Serbia
1996 “Short cut" Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzoric" installation,The Examples of Radical Abstract Art, Belgrade, Serbia
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REZIDENCES
Liquid Becomings: European Pavilion 2024, Spain, Portugal, The River Tagus sailing residency 2024.
GlogauAIR Berlin, Germany, 2024.
Arc Bucharest, Romania 2024. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2022 - 2023.
Institut of the Present, Timișoara, Romania, 2022.
Chemin d'art Alsace, Ottmarsheim, France, 2019.
International Summer Academy, Salzburg Austria, 2017.
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​​​​​​AWARDS
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The best art work by Gallery Nadežda Petrović at 31. Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, 2022.
The best art work of The Autumn exhibition 'The State of Exception', ULUS, curated by Dejan Sretenovic and Jelena Stojanovic, Belgrade 2021.
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia - ULUS, 2000. Belgrade